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I work with a lot of people from mainland China and I have not once gotten the impression of any generic sensitivity to criticism of China.
by grigjd3 8y ago
I work with a lot of people from mainland China and I have not once gotten the impression of any generic sensitivity to criticism of China.
- gcb0 8y agomainland china is pretty big. you two should be a little more specific.
- tivert 8y ago> I work with a lot of people from mainland China and I have not once gotten the impression of any generic sensitivity to criticism of China. Those kind of reactions often, but not always, get muted the longer the person is exposed to more diverse perspectives outside of the mainland. There's also a cultural trait in China where you strongly defend your in-group against criticisms from an out-group, even if those criticisms are valid. I have a Chinese friend who considers his mom to be kind of lazy (and tells her so), but if someone from outside the family made the same criticism, he'd strongly defend her as a hard worker. The same thing is true of criticisms made by non-Chinese of China.
- analyst74 8y agoChinese people can have different opinions from each other. There are staunch defenders of CCP and China in general, there are people with more nuanced views, there are ones who are super critical of CCP, and there many who are apolitical. That being said, even as someone with mixed opinions of CCP, I definitely am careful at sharing pro-China ideas in non-Chinese spaces, due to the likelihood of causing arguments or inviting personal attacks; but I feel much safer expressing criticisms of China.